About
Headshot by BEN LINDBLOOM.
Sanoe Stevenson-Egeland (b. 1998) is a painter who uses tangled composition and bright color to pry at the dialectics of her own thoughts and experiences. Trucks show up in almost all of her paintings as a means of escape, questioning the present moment and how we move through feelings of lust, loneliness, and longing. Orchestrating disarrayed moments into the two-dimensional realm, image-making becomes an innocent act of projection and a mirror for self-contradiction.
Born and raised in Kaua’i, Hawai’i, Sanoe moved to Seattle in 2016 where she now lives and works. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in 2020. Some of her recent projects include Quality Time, a solo exhibition at Museum of Museums; murals for Seattle arts community staples like Mini Mart City Park and Forest for the Trees; commissioned work made in residency at RailSpur Seattle for Hotel Westland; curatorial work for the Downtown Seattle Association; and an ongoing residency with Actualize AiR, where she also co-curated the inaugural exhibition. Aside from her personal practice, Sanoe works as the Manager of the Neddy Artist Award program and as Printmaking Studio Monitor at Pratt Fine Arts Center.
Born and raised in Kaua’i, Hawai’i, Sanoe moved to Seattle in 2016 where she now lives and works. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in 2020. Some of her recent projects include Quality Time, a solo exhibition at Museum of Museums; murals for Seattle arts community staples like Mini Mart City Park and Forest for the Trees; commissioned work made in residency at RailSpur Seattle for Hotel Westland; curatorial work for the Downtown Seattle Association; and an ongoing residency with Actualize AiR, where she also co-curated the inaugural exhibition. Aside from her personal practice, Sanoe works as the Manager of the Neddy Artist Award program and as Printmaking Studio Monitor at Pratt Fine Arts Center.